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JULY 23, 2009

In response to the madness of Twitter Follow Friday, I’m going to try something new that I call my “Fab Five to Follow Post.” Instead of tweeting dozens of random Twitter IDs with no context or explanation, I’ve decided to pick five of my favorite Twitter people and explain why I follow them, and why you might want to as well.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

If you’re relying on Twitter as your social media hub, you’re limiting your potential for impact and influence. Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). A blog is less dominated by spam than Twitter.

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JULY 6, 2010

So you have a blog, maybe two, a couple of Twitter feeds, a YouTube channel and a Facebook page. Is your Twitter account staffed by one or more real people who respond in real time to questions and comments? A one-way Twitter news feed can be useful, but it’s not engaged. Ask BP and ExxonMobil about spurious Twitter IDs.)

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JULY 3, 2009

Last year, the Associated Press announced it would “attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.’s Another interesting issue journalists are contending with is how Fair Use applies to information published on Twitter.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

The concept that e-mail is in decline, rather than dead, is too complex for many bloggers, and the technique of declaring things “dead&# is a tried and true blog traffic generator. Gizmodo, for example, responded with Email is Dead? Had I sent it to her via Twitter, it would have required 60 separate messages.

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